Shalini Khemka

Shalini Khemka founded E2Exchange (E2E) in 2011 with the mission to develop the largest and most active entrepreneurial ecosystem in the UK to enable extraordinary entrepreneurship.

E2E focuses on connecting founders, champions entrepreneurship, creates communities and invests capital via their GBP50m facility to finance high growth companies.

Coupled with this, E2E places leading non exec-directors on the boards of scale-up companies and provides an ecosystem of support to founders include a suite of world class services at entrepreneurially driven rates. It’s board includes: Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, Duncan Bannatyne OBE, Kanya King MBE, Hugh Chappell and Darryl Eales.

Prior to establishing E2E, Shalini was an investment director at LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group and historically, she ran the Group’s ‘plain vanilla’ International Trade Finance business. Shalini co-founded the world’s first online ‘bank to bank’ trade finance company.

She was a a management accountant at Deutsche Bank and worked in various finance related roles for Bankers Trust, Natwest Bank and Coopers & Lybrand.

Shalini is a member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board. She is a non-executive director f UK Export Finance (UKEF) and a fellow of Burton & South Derbyshire College.

Shalini is a champion for Tech London Advocates, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Entrepreneurs and an ambassador for Recordsure. She was formerly on the advisory board of the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), the development board of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and was a judge for IBM Smartcamp.